Author Archives: Ivan Krizsan

About Ivan Krizsan

I am a software developer since the age of 15. During the last few years I have also become an author, since I very much enjoy writing as a way of learning. Currently I work mainly with integration in the Java eco-system. Google

Automatized K3S Cluster in Multipass VMs with Ansible

By | April 13, 2023

Some time ago I sat out to automatize the creation of a K3S (lightweight Kubernetes) cluster in Multipass virtual machines using Ansible since I wanted to be able to quickly create a K3S cluster for wild experiments. Given a number of nodes and configurations for each of the virtual machines on which the nodes are… Read More »

Building A Microservice-Ready Monolith – Part I

By | February 2, 2023

When developing programs that are larger than minuscule I prefer to structure them in a fashion as once inspired by an article by Simon Brown named “An Architecturally Evident Coding Style” that I read some years ago. Not only does this help me to organize my code in a, to me, familiar way but it… Read More »

Testing Ansible Docker Container Deployment with Molecule

By | November 2, 2022

Update: There is a slight issue with the technique described in this article. Please refer to this article for a remedy. Testing Ansible automation with Molecule means testing against Docker container(s) that poses as remote server(s). An interesting challenge, at least to me, was to use Molecule to test deployment of Docker containers – this… Read More »

Creating Multipass Virtual Machines with Ansible

By | October 10, 2021

In this article I will automate creation of Multipass virtual machines using Ansible. The manual process is described in an earlier article. As in the previous article, the virtual machines created will be configured as to allow for password-less login using a private key. Prerequisites In order to be able to create Multipass virtual machines,… Read More »